Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Hubert Petz

Juergen Holzbauer

Marinus Arnoldus Martinus Vugts

Gert Samonigg

Johannes Bernardus Valentinus Van Opzeeland

Geert Mulder

Michel Bleeker

Erwin Bodewits

A housing element of a product includes a foil having a decorated side, where this decorated side of the foil is covered by a grip layer for realizing a grip effect. The other side of the foil is covered by a supportive layer. The grip layer may have a rib structure. Each of the supportive layer and the grip layer is applied to the foil in an injection molding process. A processing temperature of the material of the grip layer is significantly lower than an activation temperature of printing ink of a decorative covering of the foil, so that washout of the printing ink is prevented. Further, material of an adhesive layer of the foil is configured to establish adhesion to the material of the grip layer at this relatively low temperature.

Method for manufacturing a housing element having a decorative covering and a grip layer

The invention relates to an epilator () comprising tweezers elements (). In accordance with the invention at least the surfaces of the tweezers elements () are at least in part made of a basic material reinforced with a filling material for at least 30%, the filling material comprising a hardness of at least 3 on Moh's hardness scale.

Epilator

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Hubert Petz